Best Buy has the new Sony SL10 in stock at its webstore and in many of their retail stores. It's $150 but Best Buy has a $25 mail in rebate, dropping it to $125. CompUSA has it on its webstore and in some retail stores, too. SonyStyle says it will be available tomorrow. -nXt

RE: Another list of CreatorIDs?!

Well, the point of using an unregistered Creator ID is so that a software developer can leave a little counter that isn't removed when the application is deleted. It's a dirty trick, however, sharware is a dirty business. People delete and reinstall if the don't want to pay.

So one creates a list of creator ID's so that sophisticated users can circumvent this mechanism. Then the developers will simply change the unregistered creator ID's they are using, or even use multiple ones. That leaves more junk on your PDA that isn't removed.

RE: Another list of CreatorIDs?!

I'm not trying to get around any Shareware mumbo jumbo (I register the apps I keep), but my Palm is just filled with junk of unknown origin. I install *a lot* of software on a trial basis and end up deleting the majority of it in 5 - 10 minutes. In looking at my Palm using Filez I've noticed that a lot of applications leave crap around on your system that is no longer needed. I found a file containing High Scores for a game I'd played ONCE, two years ago!, on there. That's a little ridiculous.

Thank you for the database.

Stephen

RE: Another list of CreatorIDs?!

I hate all that extra junk! It just destroys the greatness and sleekness of the PalmOS. PalmOS reminds of what OSs were 10 years ago...each application consisting of 3 files or less...compared to the Windows mess of today. My Winnt folder has 13,013 files. If developers can't find a more efficient way, Palm units will soon have several hundred junk files as well.

If they are going to put junk in there, the file name should be more descriptive. If they are worried about people reinstalling the shareware app, then maybe they should look at other methods to protect their shareware.

These developers are just as the software pirates. The fact that software pirates steal software, doesn't justify developers to steal memory.

Shareware CreatorIDs

I have seen this technique of using an alternate CreatorID for hiding unregistered limiting information used a couple times. However, there is no reason for the shareware author to not register this alternate CreatorID. They can simply register it with no information, or as confidential information. And if they do not register it, they are risking some other author registering and using it, thus overwriting their information.

RE: Another list of CreatorIDs?!

I.M. Anonymous @ 7/29/2002 12:46:37 PM wrote:>> I hate all that extra junk!I personally do not mind the 20 or so bytes buried in the 'Saved Preferences' database. If the shareware authors did not hide the unregistered limit information there, then they would hide it in the 'DataBookDB' or worse, in a whole new database with the same createrID as one of the other standard apps. What I do mind, in agreement with you, is all the sloppiness that leaves whole databases or many large records in the 'Saved Preferences' or 'Unsaved Preferences' databases lying around which should have been deleted when the application was deleted.

Note: With current PalmOS devices, not all "extra files lying around" are caused by sloppiness on the program authors. If one moves an application to a removable media, and then that media is removed, all the extra database associated with that application would still be in memory.

RE: Another list of CreatorIDs?!

I'm assuming that junk is also copied to the backup folder on the desktop so that if one truly wanted to wipe the slate clean one would need to rename the backup folder to something else, do a hard reset, then reinstall desired apps.

---David

RE: Another list of CreatorIDs?!

The reason I started the list is 2-fold. The first reason is that I found that a lot of settings in my Saved Preferences belong to -none- and I want to keep my Palm 'clean'. The second reason, which was also posted here earlier, is that if you delete an app on your removable media, the files on the Palm are not deleted. With a list of CreatorIDs I can periodically check if some apps have left files after the app was deleted.Someone here also commented that an app can be registered with confidential information but than the information will still remove in Saved Preferences after I don't use the app anymore. So confidentially registered apps will also be listed with the app that they belong to.I know the information can be used by people to use shareware without paying for it. This is not the intention of the list. After only a couple of months my list of Saved Preferences was 13 pages long. Now it's back to 8 pages just by figuring out what I don't use anymore.

RE: GPS Stick

I have tried very hard to find a GPS which works with the T and NV 70 series. I Have a Memory Stick GPS, but I didnīt get it to work untill today with any "common" OS navigationsoftware. Tne MS GPS still works just with Navin you Pocket, which is only for Japanese maps. There is comming a satellite plot viewer with th MS-GPS. Thats all untill today. Although the MS-GPS takes alot of power out of the Sony, so that you must already connect an 12V powercable to the Sony, when you like to use it as an Navigationsystem. Finaly, I asked my hardwaresuplyer, to build an GPS to the practical needs for the "Sonnycommunity"

Yesterday i got my Sony GPS.

It is a "all in one"

12V plug, T and NV70 series, seriell connector and GPS-receifer.

The 12V plug charches the GPS and the Sony Palm at the same time. I like that very much, because after using my sony as "Navigator" i have a fully charched Palm too! The GPS is able to recife WAAS/EGNOS DGPS signal, so the possitioning will be accurate up to 1 Meter. It works with all PalmOS softwares. Prices is 279 US-$

Georg

RE: GPS Stick

RE: GPS Stick

I believe the Memory Stick GPS supports only the Sony proprietary GPS protocol and not the standard NMEA. I don't believe any standard navigation software will work with it especially since the software needs to look for the PEGA-MSG1 device and actually turn on power to it.

There is one U.S. software package that does actually support this GPS if you can get it. It's a Golf application called StarCaddy (www.starcaddy.com).

Why use SD instead of CF?

What are the advantages of SD over CF? CF costs half as much and is available in 512 MB and 1 Gig. I'd like to see a review article on the types of flash memory and why manufactures decided on a particular type. Why do PPC's use CF and Palm's use SD?

RE: Why use SD instead of CF?

RE: Why use SD instead of CF?

I wish someone besides HandEra would use CompactFlash. I know that SD is smaller but CF is cheaper and has lots of peripherals like modems. I'd get a HandEra if it was color and not quite so big. I'm realistic and I know a PDA with a CF can't be as small as a m515 but it could be smaller than the HE330.

RE: Why use SD instead of CF?

Another reason (though you wouldn't know it from Palm's implementation) is *speed*. SD rate across the bus is 10MB/s (mega BYTEs, not BITs!!) - CF is around 2.5MB/s from memory. Shame we are lumped with a very slow VFS/FAT implementation... :-(

At least with SDIO cards we *should* be seeing much higher rates than CF devices (eg scanners, GPS, GPRS etc), as they don't use the crappy VFS/FAT layer.

G.

RE: Why use SD instead of CF?

CF is capable of speeds faster than that. Lexar makes 3.6MB/sec (their 24x) cards currently. It is really dependent on the the slot implementation. I think I've seen maximums on CF listed at 6MB/sec, but I don't even think that was a fixed value. There aren't any consumer devices that handle 10MB/sec SD either at the moment. Most devices you would buy today have faster CF slots than SD.

Of course I've also seen literature that SD can/will eventually go beyond 10MB/sec in the future as well.

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